1 One day after you experience all this, the blessings and curses I’ve told you about, you’ll think about them, living in all the different nations where the Lord your God has exiled you. 2 When that happens, and when you and your children come back to the Lord your God, and when you do what he says with all your mind and all your being in accordance with everything I’m telling you today, then the Lord your God will be merciful to you. 3 He will bring you back home, gathering you from all the nations where he scattered you. 4 Even if you’re exiled to the ends of the earth, I will gather you from there and bring you back.
5 The Lord your God will bring you home to the country that belonged to your forefathers and you will own it again. He will make you successful, and you will have even more descendants than your forefathers. 6 The Lord your God will make you and your descendants his again,30:6. "Make you and your descendants his again": literally, "circumcise the hearts of you and your descendants." Circumcision was a sign of God’s "ownership" of the people, and circumcision of the heart was a description of true dedication to the Lord. and you will love him with all your mind and with all your being, so that you’ll live.